Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dognapping at New Haven, suspected by the Yale possessors of Handsome Dan, II, bulldog mascot, to be the work of Harvard wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes...
...anonymous rumor that had been circulating around stated that the dog was now being held by a Boston debutante but this was spiked by the Lampoon. The Lampoon, however, did admit unofficially, that the dog was in the custody of a girl living within 20 minutes drive of Cambridge...
Investigating rumors that the dog was in the home of a Lampoon editor in Newton, the CRIMSON discovered that it was false. It had been reported that the dog was hidden in the same place as had been the Sacred Cod last year...
...their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism as might have gained...
...expected that members of the Lampoon, undergraduate humorous publication, should advance with characteristic reticence to assume responsibility for Daniel's surreptitious abduction, but there are grounds for the belief that the deed was effected far too cleverly to admit the faltering technique of amateurs--however practiced they may be in pursuit of dame publicity. A great deal more basis is there for the surmisal that the thing was purely an inside job, and that Daniel, collar, leash, attractive physiognomy and all--fell victim to dissension within his own camp. His ministry has not been wholly a successful one, and other...